CCB

One of the many misconceptions that has preoccupied the world of architecture in recent decades is that architecture's noble existence occurs only in the built world.Buildings, in this narrative, are what constitute the real heart and body of the field. Everything else is anecdotal, peripheral, decorative, some would say with a touch of condemnation. If Carlo Scarpa's work is remembered, it is not for what he did for most of his life and what he was truly dedicated to: Exhibition design, as Philippe Duboy has shown in his book "Carlo Scarpa, L'Art d'Exposer" (Les Presses du Réel). Making exhibitions was a political commitment in a particularly complex cultural moment in Italy, as was making wallpaper for William Morris in Victorian England... More